The House Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday focused on possible ties between allies of former President Donald Trump and the extremist groups that led the riot at the US Capitol.

In a video played Tuesday, there were bits of testimony that explained how multiple advisers to and allies of Trump — including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, deputy press secretary Judd Deere, director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe, attorney general Bill Bar, aide Dan Scavino, and even his daughter and son-in-law Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner — explained to the president that he had lost the election. However, Trump disregarded it.

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Ratcliffe, a name in the tape, is an attorney who served as the Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021. He previously served as the US representative for Texas’s 4th district from 2015 to 2020.

Ratcliffe was regarded as one of the most conservative members during his time in Congress.

He also served as Mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012 and as acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas from May 2007 to April 2008.

In July 2019, Trump announced that he intended to nominate Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence. Ratcliffe withdrew after Republican senators raised concerns about him. There were several media reports that revealed Ratcliffe’s embellishments regarding his prosecutorial experience in terrorism and immigration cases.

In February 2020, Trump announced that he would again nominate Ratcliffe to be Director of National Intelligence, and after Senate approval, he resigned from the House, and was sworn in on May 26.

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Amid concerns that Ratcliffe would politicize the DNI, he pledged to be apolitical while taking an oath. However, during his tenure as DNI, Ratcliffe still faced criticism as many regarded that he was using the DNI for Trump’s benefit.

Ratcliffe was born in Mount Prospect, Illinois, northwest of Chicago. He was the youngest of six children. He graduated from Carbondale Community High School in Carbondale, Illinois; from the University of Notre Dame in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and International Studies, and the Southern Methodist University School of Law (now Dedman School of Law) with a Juris Doctor in 1989.